Retraction eight appears for social psychologist Lawrence Sanna

Earlier this week, we reported on retractions six and seven , in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, for Lawrence Sanna, the former University of Michigan psychologist who resigned last May after questions were raised about his work. Retraction eight has now appeared, also in the JESP.

Here’s the notice for “When thoughts don’t feel like they used to: Changing feelings of subjective ease in judgments of the past:”

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).

This article has been retracted at the request of the Author.

The data reported in this article are invalid. According to the first author, the responsibility for this problem rests solely with the first author, Lawrence J. Sanna, and the co-authors are in no way responsible for this problem.

The study has been cited three times, according to Thomson Scientific’s Web of Knowledge, including once by another Sanna paper in 2012.

Hat tip: Rolf Degen